No wonder it's so freakin' hard to recruit new blood with miserable curmudgeons like this around. What happened to the community that deveoped SCIDS, and paddles, and the Guide Goodie Tape almost three decades before Open Source was invented?
I feel like I'm watching an episode of http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onefootinthegrave/index.shtml And I'm ashamed. I know the population of mainframe sysprogs is ageing, but to get as grumpy as this ... The "list falling into disrepute"? GMAB. Where? When? Show me _ONE_ external reference. "WAY more strict"? Must be either Webmaster World or the Trappists. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html